Franklin Mineral Digest 1959 PARAGENETIC TABLE OF THE MINERALS OF THE FRANKLIN AREA Primary Ore Minerals Hydrothermal vein minerals Franklinite Willemite A lbi te Loseyite Zincite Tephroite Fowlerite Quartz Tremolite Zincite Pegmatite Contact Minerals Lrocidolite Hematite Willemite Beta erolite Skarn: Pneumatolyttc products: Friedelite Goethite Hyalophane Margarosanite Schallerite Manganite Diopside Pectolite Mcgovernite Pyrochroite Jeffersonite W illemite Leucophoenicite Manganbrucite Schefferite Barylite Gageite Chalcophanite Zinc schefferite Nasonite Hodgkinsonite Hedyphane Fowlerite Barysilite Ganophyllite Arseniosiderite Bustamite Glaucochroite Apophyllite Allactite Zinc-manganese cum- Tephroite Calciothomsonite Chlorophoenicite mingtonite La rsenite Stilbite Magnesium chlorophoeni- Manganiferous amphi- Calcium larsenite Heulandite cite boles : Beryllium vesuvianite Chlorite Holdenite Hastingsite, Paragasite, Roeblingite Manganiferous serpentine Sussexite etc. Hancockite Bementite Barite Garnet, var. andradite Prehnite Talc Celestite Hardystonite Leucophoenicite Fluoborite Anhydrite Tephroite Clinohedrite Mooreite Galena Roepperite Hodgkinsonite Delta-mooreite Sphalerite Glaucochroite Datolite Aragonite Greenockite Vesuvianite, var. cyprine Cahnite Dolomite Pyrite Xonotlite Sussexite Siderite Marcasite Biotite, var. Mangano- Manganoaxinite Rh odochrosite Millerite phyllite Cuspidine Smithsonite Tennantite Gahnite Apatite Surface oxidation products Magnetite Hedyphane Svabite Recrystallization prod- Calamine Psilomelane Franklinite ucts: Halloysite Cern site Fluorite Franklinite Neotocite Malachite Barite Zincite Manganiferous serpentine Azurite Silver Manganosite Desaulesite A urichalcite Copper Hematite Quartz Hydrozincite Lead Willemite Cuprite Smithsonite Galena Tephroite Hematite Descloizite Chalcocite Hy drohetaerolite A nglesite Niccolite Limonite Gypsum Chloanthite Chalcophanite Sphalerite Chalcopyrite Bornite Pyrite Lollingite Arsenopyrite Kentrolite Franklin Atteralrillirai cAssaciation AND FRANKLIN MINERAL DIGEST BOX 408 - MIDDLEBURGH, N. Y. 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Your material is well chosen, well edited, apparently complete and current, and beautifully presented. Again, my congratulations." C.A.B., Lansdale, Pennsylvania Franklin Mineral Digest • +• BOX No. 408 MIDDLEBURGH. NEW YORK to ray parents ANNA AND STEVE NAVRATIL had they never lived the Franklin Mineralogical Association might never have been born Franklin Mineral Digest Volume II November 1959 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE MEMORIAL OF CHARLES PALACHE by Clifford Frondel 1 THE MINERALS OF FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL, SUSSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY by Charles Palache EXPLANATION OF GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE FRANKLIN MINING DISTRICT 20 GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE FRANKLIN DISTRICT, SHOWING SITES OF PRINCIPAL MINERAL LOCALITIES 21 DESCRIPTION OF THE FRANKLIN FURNACE QUADRANGLE by A. C. Spencer, H. B. Kummel, J. E. Wolff, R. D. Salisbury and Charles Palache 23 THE POST-PALACHE FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL MINERALS (Part II) 39 A COMPARISON OF THE ORE DEPOSITS OF LANGBAN, SWEDEN, WITH THOSE OF FRANKLIN, NEW JERSEY by Charles Palache 41 The Franklin Mineral Digest is the official publication of the Franklin Mineralogical Association. It is pub- lished once a year at Middleburgh, New York. It is available through membership of two dollars a year in the Association. FOUNDED OCTOBER 29, 1957 Mailing Address FMA, Box No. 408, Middleburg'', New York Preamble to the Constitution of the Franklin Mineralogical Association We of the Franklin Mineralogical Association dedicate ourselves to the following principles and objectives: (1) to unite all individuals interested in the Franklin-Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey district and to coordinate independent activities for mutual benefit. (2) to gather and disseminate information relative to the district to all members via: a) a circulating library b) the Franklin Mineral Digest c) other means as prove workable (3) to foster a spirit of individual responsibility to the group objectives. (4) to safeguard, preserve and transmit to posterity the historical, geological and mineralog- ical knowledge pertinent to the Franklin district. (5) to honor the memory of Bauer, Berman, Palache and the other giants of the Franklin era. (6) to promote a campaign of safety-mindedness among collectors visiting the Franklin col- lecting areas. (7) to aspire to a high order of scientific inquiry. (8) to perpetuate the prominent position enjoyed by the Franklin district in the mineral- ogical world. (9) to enhance the collections of individual members. (10) to confirm the authenticity of minerals from the district. (11) to establish a mineral museum representative of, and devoted exclusively to minerals from the Franklin district. (12) to cooperate with existing groups and societies of kindred spirit. ry Memorial of Charles Palache by CLIFFORD FRONDEL Department of Mineralogy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Charles Palache was born July 18, 1869, and died December 5, 1954, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. One of the most eminent crystallographers and mineralogists of the world, he lived in a period of revolutionary developments in mineralogical science. Palache's ancestors belonged to a group of Sephardic Jews who at the end of the 15th Cen- tury were exiled from Portugal to Holland. Much later one family migrated to Jamaica where Charles Palache's grandfather, John, headed a plantation. For political reasons he abandoned that home in 1834, put his wife and three daughters on a ship sailing for New York, but died before he could follow them in the next boat. Three months later Palache's father, James, was born in New York City. Lured by reports of gold in California, James left his home at the age of fifteen to serve as cabin boy on a schooner rounding Cape Horn. He landed in San Francisco in 1849. There, established as a merchant, he married Helen D. Whitney, who had traveled from her home in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in a caravan of seven covered wagons. Their son, Charles Palache, was a sensitive boy who at an early age evidenced an intense interest in nature and collected objects of natural his- tory. Palache graduated from Berkeley High School, and entered the University of California in 1887. He elected the four year course in mining, since in its content there was more natural history than in any other, and graduated at the top of his class. Andrew C. Lawson was appointed Profes- sor of Geology in his senior year, and Palache returned the following year to assist Lawson in min- eralogy and to study for the doctorate, which he received in 1894. Lawson, himself at the start of a long and distinguished career, was a stimulating teacher and it is to him that Palache credited the inspiration that took him from a career in mining into mineralogy. At first Palache's interests were in field geology and petrography, and with Lawson he did the field work for the first geologic maps of the San Francisco Peninsula and the Berkeley area. In 1894, Palache left for a year of study abroad, first to work under Ferdinand Zirkel at Leipzig, where T. C. Walker and Bundjiro Koto were fellow students, and then to study with Paul Groth and Ernst Weinschenk at Munich. Other American students working in Groth's laboratory at the time were T. A. Jagger, A. B. Peck and A. S. Eakle.